Originally posted by: blued888
Originally posted by: VCIDJ
touch pro here. i love it, but it can get bogged down at times. the interface can still use a lot of polish. i want wait till winmo 6.5
I'm considering getting a Touch Pro.
Some questions if I may ask:
1. Is the thickness bothersome?
2. How's the QWERTY keyboard? It's a spring-loaded slide-out mechanism, right? I'm worried about it getting loose. I don't change phones frequently.
The thing is very thick. It's not at all bothersome to me but I came from a Kyocera Strobe K612B with an extended battery, so I'm plenty used to grossly thick phones.
The keyboard is the weakpoint of this phone. Apparently it was the one thing Verizon got right on their otherwise crippled Touch Pro. The slide mechanism is solid and perfect. The Sprint has some wobble, and I can literally twist the Alltel Touch Pro's several degrees.
Also, the keyboard is the *severe* weak point of this phone. After the first drop you stand a good chance of no longer having a working hardware keyboard. The cable that connects the keyboard is a ZIF connector with *no* sort of tape or adhesive. The problem lies in the fact that this connector very quickly can become disconnected, completely disabling the phone. My roommate has returned his phone twice already for this problem. My brother is getting his new phone tomorrow after his month-old phone's keyboard stopped working back on Friday.
Consider *really* hard if you want a hardware keyboard. If you dont and you're on Verizon the Omnia is the *better* choice. If you're on Alltel your only choice is really the Touch Pro unless you want to get a Verizon Omnia and activate it on Alltel.
To be honest at this point I would have considered a Blackberry if it wasn't for the fact that I really like the freedom of Windows Mobile.
The virtual keyboard on the Touch Pro is so so. The screen is smaller so using it vertically is full qwerty mode is near impossible unless you have skinny fingers. I use compact qwerty pretty easily. I know one guy who just likes to emulate the T9 keyboard and is lighting fast with it.
Still, I like the virtual keyboards better on phones with no physical keyboard. Those buttons on the front of the Touch Pro just take away too much screen real estate for a vertical keyboard.